First time WOFF-videomaking for me, so obviously room for improvement. Also there might be here and there some mistakes because English is not my native language.

Daniel Brasco, a young American from New York who joined the great war by becoming a pilot. Currently he is flying for Escadrille 69.
Back in NY, when he learned about the war in Europe, he boasted to his friends that no German shall throw bombs onto the graves of his ancestors. Stupidly enough his ancestors are from Corsica and he can hardly speak any French, but here he is now, after months of flighttraining.



Part 2



more to follow...

Superb Dan looking forward to more from this story!

Thanks Mark.

Fantastic video Creaghorn. Great story line and well put together! Thanks for sharing and looking forward to Brasco's adventures.

Great videos, I really like that you created an introduction. I noticed in the last few frames of the third video that there weren't any HAs in the 69 Esc., are you using the no HA mod?

Thank you all.
The intro in the first vid is a bit longer because it's supposed to be a sort of introduction of the whole squadron.

I'm using a 50 aces mod.

I watched all three videos on youtube and overall I like them, so I'd like to make a few comments/suggestions on some things....

I didn't notice you have them in HD. Was that intentional?

The way you made the introduction is great. I would have also added a title page - even a transparent one.

I'd suggest putting the combat report in the youtube description rather then the video and just refer to it.

Maybe use more outside views. Also, if you use the J key and jump to the outside view of the aircraft that is damaged/on fire/etc... and record that scene for a few seconds, maybe a nice effect.

Try different fade effects like cross, evaporate, blinding, etc...

Otherwise, I'm also experimenting with different ways to capture the scene and I like your production.

Thanks for the suggestions Oldhat.
Lot of the stuff you mentioned I also was thinking about. The difference is that I'm not trying to tell a story, and then staging footage to make it fit , which is fine, but simply flying my campaign, and the story builds by itself. All you see is original footage from my campaign I'm flying (even the intro actually). I'm not staging any scenes or something but I make my sorties as they come. If I shoot one down, I'm shooting one down, If Brasco dies, he will die. If mates die, they die. No script. So actually I'm doing what I'm always doing. Flying a campaign as realistically as possible, trying to survive, building a story around it. Only difference is that I'm recording it and sharing this experience with you now, not just for myself in my head. If there is an occasion for outsideviews, then I will use them, cause I love playing with them, but only if it does not put my campaign into jeopardy.

Personally I think the combatreport and the way it is presented, fits rather to the mood and era, maybe it adds also a bit of Amiga Wings feeling than simply a text in the youtube description, but of course each to his own. Thank you again for your suggestions. I think it will improve here and there for sure.

So in other words, it's more of a reality show, than a scripted storytelling or something.

Got it... Then carry on and I'll watch your story as it develops.

Creaghorn;

It's a very appealing set of video's and well done sir! I do to some degree have a problem with the imbedded report in that the text is quite small unless I go to full screen, which I finally did. I have made a few vids myself and I fine that it takes considerable time to edit, produce and add effects, let alone wait for the upload time to YouTube. That is time taken away from my flying and that is why I have reveted to the KISS principle.

I hope to see more of your work but I understand it won't be coming fast and furious.

Best Regards;

Yes. That's why I would suggest for everybody watching it to watch it in HD. Why are you asking?

My mistake. I didn't notice that Youtube defaulted to non-HD, so I changed the selection back to HD.

Brasco is still like a puppie. Discovering new and deadly things every day.

I hope you are enjoying it a little bit, while leaning back and drinking tea or coffee.

Keep up the good work, your videos are really good and I'm really enjoying them.

Yes, please do.........

Very well done Dan, no4 is excellent, gives you a taste of how it would have felt day to day especially on seeing new types appear in your path and you have to make up new tactics there (or die trying). I actually have some popcorn too so worked out well

like the 'Wings' theme song - more please

Thank you all.

As you said, Mark, I think with him it's like it was for most real pilots in ww1, adapting to a world much bigger than themselves. And either one survives a while with luck and with gaining experience, like newborn animals in the wild do, or one fails doing so. It's about the comradry and duty and controling the own fears as good as possible and a good balance of self preservation and risk (the most important factor IMO)

Glad you like it.

Cheers